10.6.7 bugs "Illuminate keyboard in low light conditions"

After I update to 10.6.7, my backlight keyboard from my MBP, make problems.
So, I enter on System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard and then I deactivate "Illuminate keyboard in low light conditions". After this I use the manual commands from F8, F9, F10. When I use manual, the "Illuminate keyboard in low light conditions" active again.
Conclusion: even when I use manual commands for keyboard illumination, that option activate only. Any key I press when that option is not active, it`s activating only.
So I think that a bug...
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Hi, here I have the same behavior, and I also think it's a BUG, because if I configure the machine to manually adjust the intensity of something, I expect the machine to behave like I want and not like it WANTS.
This is almost the same as the first time I installed Windows 95, that shi7 take over the control of my computer!
I want to CONTROL my laptop!!!!!

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